Mrs.+V.+Romano

On July 11, 1920, 36-year-old homemaker Vincenza Alberino Romans, an Italian immigrant, died at Chicago's Columbus Hospital from septicemia after an abortion. A midwife named Marie Lendino was arrested, and was indicted on July 15, but the case never went to trial for reasons the source does not indicate.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].

 For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion]

 Sources:
 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]
 * Death certificate



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